Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-04
9glioiuus department.
The Courage of Young Convert
Rewarded.

A pastor was holding extra meetings in
a school-house in a rich rural neighbor-
hood A wealthy farmer living a mile
! distant had not attended, nor had any of
the family, when the WIFE an Unconditional
woman. but of rare good sense, went to
the meeting one evening. Although 1t
/ was the first one of them she
had attended, she was convicted of her
sins, sought the Lord, aud was happily
converted before the meeting closed Her
special cross now was to tell her husband
of her new experience. Reaching home,
she found the family had retired. Her
husband arousing from sleep, said: y GU
are little late home" Yes" she said,
Il have been to the meeting and I've been
! converted. and l want you TO come with
/ me- He was silent minute or two and
then said: MARY, you could not have
| done a thing that would have displeased
me more. Don't ever speak of II to me
again. Come TO bed" 1t was the most
! abrupt remark he had made to her in
| twenty wears of welded life But she
EN- until the morning. She did not sleep,
and silently the whole night commended
his case to God. She also knew that he
was far from having night of rest.
Farmer-like, they ate breakfast by candle
light. No sooner was he seated at the
table than he said: Children, your mo-
ther SAYS she was converted at the meet
ing last night, and she won't want to eat
without blessing being asked. So keep
still while she asks one The good wO-
man knew that the trick was mean, but
would not deny her Lord She asked the
blessing the best she could. There was
silence during the meal. When the hired
man pushed back to leave the room the
man of the house said: My wife says
she is converted, and of course she will
want TO read and pray before we go to
work; you better sit down" Nothing
daunted, the prosecuted but saved woman,
without a murmuring word, set herself TO
the untried work, read a chapter, and,
kneeling alone, prayed. As the son was
leaving the room the father said In an
hour you hitch the gray horses to the cut
ter. Your mother and are going to c.
for visit Ordinarily he was a kind
husband, consulted his wife about social
and business affairs, and few homes were
in better accord. But this was the first
intimation TO the wife of the proposed
visit. Shall she submit, and thus be ig-
nored! Shall she leave the meetings
Oh, nhi be
saved: These and other similar questions
were pressed on her consciepce, yet some
how she believed God was to be glOritied
even through this abuse. In an hour she
was seated by her husband and silently
they drove twenty miles, when he refined
up TO a hotel and ordered dinner. When
they entered the dining-room a few
boarders and a half-doZen commercial
travellers came in. With a knife-handle
the man raped, and as the company
looked about, he said MY wife says she
was converted last night, and she will not
want to eat unless she asks a blessing.
Please keep still while she says grace"
Although faced by twenty strangers IN
this cruel arraignment, yet she would not
deny her Lord, and in stammering utter
ances thanked him for the food before
them. There was no jest uttered, and
the meal was eaten in silence An hour
later and the team was brought and the
man turned the team toward home. At
ter they had gone a few rods the wife
said This is not the way to c." |
know it," and, bursting into tears, he
said: wife, I've used you mean; but
you've got the real thing, and I'm going
to the school-house tonight to see if l
can get converted" The rest of the
sorry is short. The days were but few
before the whole family, including the hir
ed help, was converted. She who was
put to such unjust and unnatural tests,
but who demonstrated her conversion by
unfinching Christian courage, has seen
her husband leading and worthy official
in the church of God for many years"
Christian 1dCOcdte.